"Brothers and sisters, tonight we launch our campaign here in Iowa. Are you ready for a political revolution?" (Cheering)

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I) Vermont:

"What this campaign is about is not only that we're going to win the Democratic nomination. It's not only that we're going to defeat Donald Trump, the most the most dangerous president in modern American history. But with your help we are going to transform this country and create an economy and a government that works for all of us not just the 1 percent." (cheering)

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I) Vermont:

"That the underlying principles of our government will not be greed, will not be kleptocracy, will not be hatred and lies. It will not be racism sexism xenophobia homophobia and religious bigotry."

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5. Sanders waves to crowd, walks away from microphone

Storyline

Sen. Bernie Sanders reasserted himself on Thursday as the original champion of a progressive agenda many of his fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have since adopted.

The Vermont senator rallied a cheering throng in a noisy convention center in western Iowa, promoting the same themes that launched him to a near-tie with Democrat Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses in 2016. Sanders noted that he had fought for the progressive issues first.

There were signs from the deafening cheers that Sanders had the potential to reignite the magic of 2016.

He called President Donald Trump "the most dangerous president in modern American history."

In the hourlong speech, Sanders did not bring up the allegations of sexual harassment and other mistreatment that female staffers on his first presidential campaign had made against some of the male staffers.

The crowd was dominated by supporters from nearby Omaha, Nebraska, who are ineligible to participate in Iowa's leadoff precinct caucuses.

The tone of Sanders' event was familiar. The crowd waved "Bernie" signs, wore T-shirts featuring Sanders' familiar shock of white hair and glasses, and interrupted his speech with the chant: "Feel the Bern! Feel the Bern!"

But the landscape has shifted significantly nationally since 2016, when he was the lone candidate advocating for progressive issues including guaranteed health care for all and a $15 minimum wage.

Those positions were adopted by several successful Democratic candidates for U.S. House in 2018, when the party seized the majority.

Now, presidential candidates Sens. Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren have signed onto Sanders' "Medicare-for-all" bill, which holds out the promise of health care as a right, the potential for national savings from reduced administrative costs and government price-setting, and no more copays, deductibles or surprise medical bills

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